New Zealand Birds & Botanicals

Students will work with freezer paper and NZ flora and fauna themed patterns to create stencils, which they will then use to create their own unique compositions. We will experiment with positive and negative stencils, layering images and reversing. Each student will select their favourite works to create a small wall hanging. Students will also learn the Maori names for the patterns and have a lesson in Maori pronunciation.

BASIC SEWING- ALL LEVELS WELCOME

Instructor: Charlotte Scott

I am a New Zealand based textile artist. My work depicts narratives of the natural world and my medium is cloth, needle and thread. I am deeply inspired by the unique flora and fauna of New Zealand and by trying to capture the distinctive colours we have surrounding us. I colour my own cloth, either with dye or paint, then I cut, layer and quilt my work, using the texture of the quilting stitches as an integral element of the final design. I host a podcast called The New Zealand Quilt Show.
It showcases the quilting talent we have in Oceania by interviewing well-known quilters and industry professionals. When I am not making quilts, I am a part-time midwife, a wife and a mother.

Materials supplied:

• ·         paint, irons and ironing surfaces

Materials to bring 

Fabrics: a wide selection of fat-quarter sized cotton fabrics. Solids, or one-colour, mottled fabrics work best (avoid commercial prints). Include some light coloured and some dark coloured fabrics.

• 1 metre of cheap fabric e.g. calico
• 1 metre of felt/cotton batting/old woollen blanket
• Fat-quarter sized piece of cotton batting
• 1 metre of freezer paper
• large plastic rubbish sack
•  masking tape, thick, small-holed, kitchen sponge, plastic lids or paint palette
•   small, sharp pointed paper scissors
•  pencil and eraser
•  Exacto knife, cutting mat, rotary cutter and rulers
•  sewing machine (cleaned and in good working), with a piecing foot
  and walking foot and/or free-motion quilting foot
•  threads for piecing and quilting, and general sewing supplies (scissors, pins, etc.)